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Word: copse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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The lines on the faces suggest road maps leading into unknown territory but pursued in reckless good faith. The eyes are bright, the chins are raised in cheerful pugnaciousness, the mouths always on the verge of a smile. These folks seem as jolly as TV-commercial grandparents, yet eager to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

The snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 1984 | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

It is the cops job to play just as dirty as the criminals they're out to get. The problem, however, is their tendency to bungle everything they tough, bringing calamity to the guilty and innocent alike. When the movie begins, the police had been losing nearly all of their...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Foregone Conclusion | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

Meanwhile, after spotting a suspect bringing two takeout Chinese dinners to the desolate carpenters' yard, the police became virtually positive that the captives were being held there. That feeling was buttressed as the police followed one man from the hideout to Utrecht, where they saw him place another note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: One for the Hare | 12/12/1983 | See Source »

I have been very sick. The cops beat me brutally at a rally called by the democratic youth which had been authorized by Pinochet. You cannot imagine how they hit me, what's more, they shot me in the back which hurt me very badly, causing a blood clot in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chile: Forgotten Atrocities | 12/10/1983 | See Source »

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